The
Iowa Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Iowa. We have created a
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The Iowa Primary Sources will help your students build common core skills including:
• Analysis
• Critical Thinking
• Point of View
• Compare and Contrast
• Order of Events
• And Much More!
Perfect for gallery walks and literature circles! Great research and reference materials!
The 20
Iowa Primary Sources are:
• Map of Fort Madison – first permanent U.S. military fortification on the Upper Mississippi – 1810
• Illustration of Sauk Chief Black Hawk – Indian leader during Black Hawk War of 1832
• Small section of Pierre-Jean De Smet’s 1839 map of the Council Bluffs Region
• Message from President John Tyler transmitting a letter to Congress from the governor of Iowa and a memorial from the Iowa legislative assembly asking that Iowa be admitted as a state into the Union – 1844
• Wood engraving depicting charge of the First Iowa Regiment at Battle of Wilson’s Creek near Springfield, Missouri – 1861
• Photograph of Grenville Mellen Dodge – Union Army officer in the Civil War, railroad executive who helped build the Transcontinental Railroad, and U.S Congressman from Iowa – 1864
• Poster advertising land for sale in Iowa and Nebraska – 1872
• Illustration of an Iowa farm in Muscatine County – 1875
• Photograph of Buffalo Bill Cody and Sitting Bull in 1885 – Buffalo Bill was a U.S. Army scout, bison hunter, and showman – born in Iowa
• Engraving of the Coal Palace in Ottumwa – exhibition center built to showcase the coal industry in the area – 1890
• Postcard of butter sculpture of a boy, cow, and calf – Iowa State Fair – 1904
• Copy of Quaker Oats advertisement – Quaker Oats was formed in 1901 by the merger of four oat mills, including a cereal mill in Cedar Rapids – 1905
• Photograph of woman’s suffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt – spent her childhood in Iowa – circa 1920
• Advertisement for Eskimo Pie ice cream bars – invented by Iowa candy store owner Christian Kent Nelson – 1921
• President Herbert Hoover with his pet dog, King Tut – Hoover born in West Branch, Iowa – 1928 photo
• Photograph of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visiting a Works Progress Administration (WPA) site in Des Moines – 1936
• Photograph of Iowa family on New Mexico highway – family left Iowa during the Great Depression to find work in western U.S. – 1936
• Photograph of farmer in Jasper County examining hybrid corn – Iowa produces more corn than any other state – 1936
• Photograph of excavation of Edgewater Park Site in Coralville – Late Archaic period campsite – 2004 photo
• Population density map of Iowa – 2010
Your students will:
• think critically and analytically, interpret events, and question various perspectives of history.
• participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations instead of memorizing facts and a writer’s interpretations.
• integrate and evaluate information provided in diverse media formats to deepen their understanding of historical events.
• experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience.
Each primary resource is printed on sturdy 8.5" X 11" cardstock.